Register-support for type-writing and adding machines.



PATENTBD MAY 15, 1906.

P. H. TURLBY.

REGISTER SUPPORT FOR TYPE WRITING AND ADDING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED AUG.24,1905.

QWi/bmeoow STATES rarn'r FFIOE,

ELLlOTT-FHHER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,

OF DELAWARE.

u. r, A CORPORATION REGlSTEP- SUPPQRT FOR TYPE WRlTlNG AND ADDING MACHINES.

To all wi'wnt it ntcty concern:

citizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Register-Support for Type-Writing and Adding Machines, of which the following is specification.

This invention relates to an adjustable su port for the computing device or register 0' a combined type-writing and computing ma chine, the object being to provide the register guide-bar with supporting means involving provision for both the vertical and horizontal adjustment of the bar in order to secure an accurate adjustment of the computing device or register with respect to its actuating mechanism.

To the accomplishment of the object stated the preferred embodiment of the invention embraces .one or more sup iiorting-brackets adapted to be secured to the frame of the type-writing machine and including one or I more vertically and horizontally adjustable posts carrying the register supporting or guiding bar and equipped with means for securely locking the parts against accidental movement after their adjustment has been reflected.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a'typewriting-machine frame equipped with my register-support, the register being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an end view of the support, and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation 35 thereof.

Each. part is designate l by its appropriate reference character in the several views.

it may be stated, by Way of premise, that the Elliott i isher billing and adding machine Of commerce includes an Elliott-Fisher billing or type-writing machine the carriage of which supports the Operating mechanism of a computing device or register, which latter is mounted upon a supporting and guiding bar attached to the frame of the machine. As the operating mechanism moves relative to the adding device or register as the carriage moves along the frame for letter-spacing, it follows that the adding device must be accurately positioned both horizontally and vertically in order to avoid interference of the parts. It is to secure this accurate loca- 7 tion of the adding device in a machine of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 24:, 1905. Serial N0. 275,695.

' the approximate adjustment of the Patented May 15, 1906,

j character stated that the present invention Be it known that l, PATRICK H. TUnLnY, a l is designed. In Fig. 1 of the drawings is billing-machine. To this frame is attached a pair of brackets 2, havin attaching-lugs 3 imposed against and rigidy secured to the frame 1, as by screws 4 or other suitable securing means.

The upper end of each bracket 2 is provided with an opening 5, exendin from front to rear, and at the bottom of the racket is a clamp comprisin a pair of rearwardly-extending lugs 6 and an adjusting-screw 7, connecting the lugs 6 at their rear ends. aperture 5 at the upper end of'the bracket is designed for the reception of a horizontal screw 8, provided with a vertically-apertured sleeve or head 9 at its rear end The screw 8 also extends through span of clamping and adjusting nuts 10 and 11, which are opposed to the front and rear sides of the brac et 2. Extending through each head or sleeve 9 is a supporting-post 12, having an enlar ed upper end 13, a transversely-angular or attened lower end 14, and an intermediate threaded portion 15. The enlarged upper The end 13 of each post is screwed or otherwise, I

secured to the under side of the register-supporting bar 16. The flattened lower end of 6 of the bracket, and'the threaded intermediate portion of the post isengaged by looking and adjustingnuts 17 and 18, hearing against the top and bottom faces ,of the sleeve or head 9, just as the nuts 1( and'11 bear against the opposite sides of the bracket 2.

In applying the register-supporting bar 16 to the "rame 1 the brackets 2 are first screwed securely in place. The screws 8 are'then I passed through the brackets,'the nuts 11 being first screwed thereon, and are secured by the nuts 10. The posts, first having the V the post is held between the clamping-lugs nuts 17 positioned thereon, are then passed through the heads or sleeves 9 and secured by the nuts 18, the lower ends of the posts being received between the clamping-lugs 6. 1 The bar 16 is then screwed, to theuppler endsof the posts, as showninFig. 1, and t e computpi ing device, or register R is slipped upon the bar 16 and secured in the'usua manner.

parts tained during the assembling thereo is'folmd i 55 shown a portion of the main frame 1 of an Elliott-F1sher dosirad m: 1 .c r, znnd the posts. Tl

'J r1101 locking and and a -11 902i Eng 1 111 5 (eluding her vertically adjustable on the member first l arigid member, a horizontally-adjusteble named, means "for securing the second mernscrew carried thereby, a vertically-adjust her in its Verticallyedjusted positions, and e able threaded post extended through the horizontal register-supporting bar adjustable head of the screw, and a clamp engaging the with the second member. lower end of the 0st.

12. A register-support including a rigid In testimony t rat I claim the foregoing as member, a horizontallyedjusta ble screw carmy own I have hereto affixed my signature ried thereby, a nut retaining the screw, a in the presence of two Witnesses. threaded post extended through the head of PATRICK H. TURLEY. the screw, a nut retaining the post, and a register-supporting bar resting on the post.

13. Register-supporting means including Witnesses:

JNo. R. GEYER, CHAS. F. LAGAUKE. 

